The Cruel Punishment In Dante's Inferno

Dante came a long way in reaching the lower part of Hell in the “Inferno” to not be to be highly satisfied with what he experienced from seeing, hearing, reflecting, and questioning. Throughout the journey we can see that Dante had two sides to him the one in which his felt sympathy for the sinners and felt frightened along the way and the other Dante in which he judgment that the sinners should have a more cruel punishment. Dante encountered many challenges as he progressed to each level.
Dante went through each level of hell with his guide the poet Virgil starting from the top, from the sinners whose punishment was not as bad as the last level of Hell. To show , from high to low it was first, limbo in which the sinners in which did not sin, but were never baptized. Secondly, lust the sinners who have a sexual desire and were punished by have winds pushed them back and forward. Thirdly, Gluttony, here the sinners who are selfish suffer day and night in

the icy rain. Fourthly, Greed here the sinners who are hoarders and those who spent their money on unnecessary things were punished by pushing heavy weights and crashing them with one another . Fifth, is Anger, in which the sinners who took their anger out on people and were punished by being thrown in the river of Styx they suffer as they are shown gurgling in the waters Dante experiences as he passes by in the boat. Sixth, is Heresy the sinners who believe the soul dies with the body are punished in a tomb with fire while they are inside . Seventh violence in which the sinners who were murderer's, suicide thoughts or attempts, and those who wanted to hurt others and or property and they were punished by burning sand and burning rain falling from the sky. The eight levels is, fraud in which the sinners who accept or give bribes; In addition, the thieves hypocrites, misusing gifts, hypocrites, simonist, flatters, seducers , and lastly fortune-tellers and sorcerers. The last level of Hell was Treachery, in which the sinners betrayed Jesus either by killing their own blood brothers or disobeying Jesus words here they are punished by having their body’s frozen in a lake.
Moving along, when Dante and Virgil arrived to the final level of Hell Dante was confused, but luckily Virgil was doing all the talking so he helped Dante understand what was going on as they took each step closer to satan “Lucifer”.

Lucifer in other words knows as Satan had three faces, three sets of wings attached, each face had two eyes in which constantly shed tears, each mouth also chewed a sinner. To illustrate, in Canto 34 it states, “ When I beheld three faces on his head! The one in the front vermilion was, two were the others, that were joined with this above the middle part of either shoulder And They joined together as a crest” ( Pg. 47. line 36). Moving forward, Lucifer is the biggest sinner because he was once an angel and he was no longer that angel because he went behind Jesus back and perform acts that Jesus nor God would permit. To show, “ in Canto 34 it states, “ The creature who once had the beauteous semblance” (Pg. 47 Line 18). To explain, Lucifer is the angel who rebelled against

God.
Moving forward, Dante represented the ultimate evil as a betrayal because there is no sin worse than testing or even doubting one's own god. Lucifer played by God and taught that he was going to defeat God. It is just as shows us that no one should lose their hope nor faith. The worst thing someone can do it stop believing in God and go towards the “evil” side in which Lucifer created. Dante explains the three worst human sinners, in which included Judas for betraying Jesus, Brutus and Cassius for being traitors of God. “ To start, in Canto 34 it stated “is Judas iscariot… two others, who heard the downward are, The one who hangs from the black jowl is Brutus; See how he witness myself , and speaks no word …. And the other, who so stalwart seem, is Cassius”( Pg. 47. Line 60-75). The human sinners are put into satan's mouth as punishment.
In conclusion, Dante’s questions raise as he gets back on earth as to how it was all possible. In addition, Dante felt as if there was more to the punishment other than being frozen in water. To end with, Satan was desperate in trying to get away, but it was useless, he was stuck in the water and as the more he flapped the more he kept the lake frozen.